New steps in scaling up our good practice in Mexico

After the workshop organized by Handicap International / Making It Work in Colombia in April 2017, “Colectivo Chuhcan” has implemented positive actions in terms of scaling, working with institutions to influence the current social model. We also created a platform of young activists with and without disabilities at national level. Relating to the 2030 agenda, they play the role of precursor activists with different disabilities and lead actions for the inclusion of various types of disability nationwide: they contribute to two projects working with the Government, from the initiative of Colectivo Chuhcan, Planeta Inclusion, CONFE (Mexican Confederation of Organizations in Favor of the Person with Intellectual Disability), El Caracol and an independent activist. In addition, we organize exchanges of experiences with persons from other countries, and are in partnership with Argentina, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Mexico, in the context of the UN agenda of young activists with and without disabilities, based in the social model and the CRPD.

Colectivo Chuhcan met with COPRED (Council to Prevent and Eliminate Discrimination) and the CDHDF (Human Rights Commission of the Federal District) of Mexico City, in charge of providing peer-to-peer services, and exchanged on the topic of scaling-up, following the Handicap International workshop in Colombia.

Colectivo Chuhcan gained more strength and took a more independent role by establishing alliances with other organizations such as Documenta, PUDH (Academic Human Rights Program), El Caracol and also with the entire disability movement at a national level, working on all types of disabilities.

These concrete actions establish a roadmap, supported by the workshop organized by Handicap International in Colombia, on how to work with the government which may have different views than ours. These are solid bases to collaborate together and to advance the movement of Disability rights, based on the CRPD, at the national level in Mexico.

Besides, Colectivo Chuhcan is looking at replicating its structure throughout Mexico State, around the headquarters based in Mexico City.